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Dallas (AP) — A jury trial begins Tuesday in a man's capital murder trial accused of fatally shooting two teenage daughters in a taxi in the Dallas area in 2008. did.
Yaser Said, 65, 18 years old, Amina Saeed and 17 years old Sarah Saeed's daughters were murdered and avoided arrest for more than 12 years. If convicted, he faces life imprisonment.
Yassel Saeed stood on the stand on Monday and told the jury that he did not kill his daughter. The jury told me that the night his sister was killed, I went to Oklahoma with his mother and boyfriend, left home a week ago, and wanted to "solve the problem", so I took him to dinner. He said he was going.
He said he ran away from the taxi he was driving that night because they were being followed and someone wanted to kill him. He said he did not leave himself to the authorities because he feared he would not be able to get a fair trial. The
prosecutor said Saeed was in control and his daughters left home because they were afraid of him. Attorneys said the evidence did not support the conviction and police were too quick to focus on Saeed as a suspect.
During the trial, the jury heard 911 calls from her cell phone and told the operator that her father had shot her and she was dying. rice field.
"She is now screaming from her grave," prosecutor Lauren Black told the jury after making a 911 call in her closing statement.
Attorneys said that hallucinations can occur at moments of extreme trauma, such as when people are shot multiple times.
Yassel Saeed, who has been sought a murder warrant since his murder, has been put on the FBI's most wanted list. He was finally arrested in August 2020 in Justin, about 35 miles (60 kilometers) northwest of Dallas.
